Local Editor

Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah fighters, backed by allied army units, killed dozens of Saudi soldiers in a retaliatory attack in Yemeni’s southwestern province of Ta’iz.

According to a report by Yemen’s official Saba news agency on Tuesday, Yemeni forces also seized a military base used by Saudi forces in Ta’iz and killed a senior Saudi commander.

Saudi troops later tried to take back the base, yet their struggle failed and resulted in the destruction of a number of their vehicles, the report said.

Also, Ansarullah fighters launched retaliatory missile attacks on a base in Saudi Arabia’s southwestern border region of Jizan.

The report further said that the Yemeni army also launched retaliatory rocket attacks on Saudi military bases in Zahran in the Asir border region of Saudi Arabia. Furthermore, Yemeni Popular Committees fired a number of missiles at Saudi bases in the al-Khobe district of Jizan.

Meanwhile, Saudi war jets on Tuesday pounded various areas across Yemen, including the town of Tuhayta in the province of Hudaydah, the town of Bani Matar in Sana’a province and a number of areas in the provinces of Hajjah and Sa’ada. 

Saudi artillery also fired shells toward different parts of the Kitaf region in Yemen’s Sa’ada.

Yemen’s al-Masirah television reported that two civilians were killed after Saudi-led warplanes bombarded the Razih district in Sa’ada.

Yemen has been under ceaseless military attacks by Saudi Arabia since March. 

On March 26, a Saudi-led coalition backed by the United States began carrying out a military aggression against Yemen by launching airstrikes on the country in a bid to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement and restore power to the fugitive former Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, a close ally of Saudi Arabia.

The airstrikes have not been authorized by the United Nations [UN]. 

As a result, the Yemeni army backed by popular committees and tribal fighters has been responding to the aggression by targeting several Saudi border military posts and cleansing several areas across the country from Hadi and al-Qaeda-linked militias.